Common artifacts in PET myocardial perfusion images due to attenuation-emission misregistration: Clinical significance, causes, and solutions

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1029-1039

  Loghin, Catalin ^a   Sdringola, Stefano ^a   Gould, K Lance ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifact; Attenuation; Heart; Image registration; PET

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; GERMANIUM 68; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; RUBIDIUM 82; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ARTIFACTS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DIPYRIDAMOLE; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 3242731469     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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